[tvorog]

Web app can be easily blocked by government. Look at telegram in Russia. Native app still useful without vpn.

[xamarinthrw]

This doesn't even make sense. Blocking is blocking of network connection. Native apps still need that to talk back home

[evgen]

Native apps can be a bootstrap shim for a more distributed back-end. PWAs are not going to be loading off onion nodes or ephemeral distributed networks any time soon. Native apps, especially those that can side-load or update without the app stores, will always be more resistant to these sorts of attacks.

[tvorog]

Telegram uses push notifications to update its server ips.